ADRIAN GRANADOS AIRTOOL FREE

So we’ve got our easy monitor mode wireless captures in OS X (thank you built-in monitor mode!), now let’s tweak Wireshark to be a little more useful. With Airtool and Wireshark on OS X, you’ve got all you need to do 0-80 (MHz) in under 10 seconds! The preferences menu lets you make some tweaks to the status icon, set the capture file location. You’ll also notice that you can set the capture channel width – dependent of course on your internal NIC’s capabilities. OS X doesn’t do this well on it’s own (option + click on the wifi icon for the option, but it will usually just reconnect). Basically, Airtool is a better interface to the OS X wireless diagnostics capture utility.īetter yet – you can have Airtool disconnect from the current WLAN for you. That’s how we roll.Īirtool can start it’s own captures and then open them in Wireshark for you when stopped. Take a look: Airtool can change the channel in a live capture via the Channel menuĬhannel change mid-capture. Airtool sits in your menu bar and gives you quick draw access to capture settings.

ADRIAN GRANADOS AIRTOOL FREE

Wifi Signal and Wifi Explorer are both well worth the small cost and do a great job at optimizing your access to the wifi info hitting your machine.īut back to Airtool – free download. Do yourself a favor, take a short detour to his site here and check out all of his apps. There’s one more piece to the puzzle to make monitor mode captures on OS X really functional – Airtool is a free download from Adrian Granados.

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